Martin Benrath Movies

A German Platoon is explored through the brutal fighting of the Battle of Stalingrad. After half of their number is wiped out and they're placed...

A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for...

Schtonk! is a farce of the actual events of 1983, when Germany's Stern magazine published, with great fanfare, 60 volumes of the alleged diaries of...

An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a...

A black comedy about the dream of freedom and the difficulty of obtaining this: While Molly (Eva Mattes), Elisabeth (Katja Flint) and Maria (Ornella...

After World War II, Jürgen Godeysen ends up in a hospital, wounded and traumatized. There, the young Nicoline reads to him from the diaries of...

A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been...

Reinhold Schünzel is one of the most sought-after actors and directors of cinema of the Weimar Republic. When the National Socialists come to...

During the Second World War, a small group of students at Munich University begin to question the decisions and sanity of Germany's Nazi government....

Duke Henry XI of Liegnitz, a "drunkard" and "glutton", slaps his wife Sophia in the face because she calls his mistress a whore. When the Duchess...

In the second part of the drama, the wounded Jürgen hears about the happy years his father Michael spent with his wife Bim at the "Fohlenhof."...